It is bad enough that there are fully armed aircraft in the skies above the UK. That seems unnecessary - what are they planning to fire the missiles at?.

I suspect there is a bit of journalists hyperbole going on here but if not my immediate reaction is more along the lines of 'arrogant RAF b***sterds'. I hate the military and the assumption that somehow challenging it and its practices is 'unpatriotic'. Policemen should be able to go about their day to day business without fear of violence and that a risk of violence is made 'comic' in this way sickens me. But as I say it is almost certainly a made up story anyway (Tabloid Watch is one of my favourite web-sites).